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刊物:空中英语教室
日期:2013-03-05
难易度:Low
关键字:snorkel, shallow, urge, eventually, Frisbee, kite surfing, fin


























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Hello, and welcome to Studio Classroom.
My name is Gabe.
I'm Carolyn.
And I'm Nathanael.
And you are joining us for day two of our lesson about Zanzibar.
We're enjoying Ian Ludwig's experiences in Zanzibar.
And today we're going to find out a little bit about his time on the beach at
Zanzibar,
which just makes me wonder about your favorite activity to do on the beach.
Nathanael, what's something that you like to do when you go to a beach?
Well, I love to bodyboard.
I wish that I could surf, but because I can't, I bodyboard, which is kind of
like surfing though you're laying down.
All right.
Bodyboarding is a lot of fun.
Carolyn, what's something that you like to do when you visit the beach?
Well, I really love to play in the sand and build sand castles with my family.
So a lot of vacations we would go to the beach together and build very large
sand castles.
Well, I would be interested in seeing one of those sand castles.
I'm not very good at making sand castles.
I also am not a very good surfer, although I did start learning recently.
And I think I'm going to do that more and more.
It is a lot of fun.
It's great fun to visit the beach.
There are many things you can do there.
We're going to learn more about Ian's time on the beaches of Zanzibar right now.
(Music).
Zanzibar.
The next day we went to a beach on a small island nearby.
We snorkeled, played Frisbee and ate fresh seafood on the beach!
The third day we decided to go and stayed at a beach called Paje.
Our hotel was right on the beach, and the floors in our rooms were the sand!
We swam, read and danced to African music.
The warm, shallow water makes kite surfing very popular there.
(Music).
Well, we see here that the next day we went to a beach on a small island nearby.
So although Zanzibar is an island, it has other small islands around it.
And they went to a beach on one of those islands.
And what did they do there, Carolyn?
We see that we snorkeled, played Frisbee and ate fresh seafood on the beach.
So it sounds like they had a really great time at this beach.
And there's a key word in that sentence: snorkel.
If you snorkel, where are you, Gabe?
Oh, you're in the water enjoying looking at the fishes and everything down
below.
Um, when you snorkel, you're on the surface of the water.
You're using things to help you breathe on the surface of the water.
So you're not going down into the water.
Nathanael, if you do go down into the water, what does that call?
Well, if you are going underwater, that would be scuba diving.
But snorkeling is different.
That's important to know.
And it's very fun to snorkel if you know a good place to do it.
It's a good thing to try if you haven't.
They also mentioned that that played Frisbee, which maybe you've heard of.
It's kind of a round disk that you can throw to each other.
And if you play Frisbee, actually the first thing I think of is ultimate
Frisbee.
Maybe they played this game.
You have two teams; and it's kind of using the rules of football.
You have a goal on each end, but you use a Frisbee instead of a ball.
Ultimate Frisbee is a great game to play on a beach or anywhere.
OK.
Continuing in the article we see that the third day we decided to go and stay at
a beach called Paje.
OK. A particular beach was called Paje.
And this is where they stayed because we also see that our hotel was right on
the beach, and the floors in our rooms were the sand.
It's very interesting.
The floors of the room were actually the sand, probably the sand right on the
beach.
And that's what we want to talk about this phrase called "right on." It's a
bonus phrase we want to talk about today.
"Right on the beach" kind of means directly on the beach, it was right there.
What are ways that we could use this, Carolyn?
Well, if you say something is right on something else, then you are trying to
emphasize or show very clearly that that is the location.
Maybe I can't find my books.
I don't know where they are.
And then I see they were right on my desk the whole time.
So they were there, on my desk.
How else might you use this phrase, Gabe?
Well, you can use that word "right" with other prepositions as well.
Maybe you're looking for your books.
They're not right on your desk.
They're right under your desk, or they're right next to your desk.
So you can use that word "right" to talk about the exact location of something.
And of course, they stayed right on the beach, and the floors of their hotel
rooms were the sand.
That sounds really interesting.
It actually sounds like quite an exotic experience, not something that I would
experience every day.
No. It is kind of unusual, not something that you would see every day.
And we're going to talk about the usage of "sand." Or at least Steve and Ken are
going to tell us about how to use "sand" or "sands" when we speak.
Let's see what they have to say to us today.
Let's talk about a very simple word today, "sand," you know, the stuff that you
find at a beach.
Steve, what should we remind our students of when they want to use this word?
Well, they should remember that most of the time, the word "sand" is
uncountable.
That's right.
Sand is uncountable.
That means you don't add an "S" at the end of it.
There is a lot of sand at the beach.
If you want to count sand, you can use the word "grain." I think there's a grain
of sand in my eye.
Hmm. There's only one instance that I can think of that we use "sand" as a
countable noun.
And that is in the phrase: the sands of time.
Ah, yes, the sands of time are running out.
If you've ever seen how sand flows in an hourglass, you'll appreciate this
saying, which means time is getting short, and you should do what you need to do
now.
Carpe diem.
Yes, nice one, Ken.
"Carpe diem" is a Latin phrase that means seize the day.
If time is running out, we should grab hold of the present before it's too late.
(Chinese).
That is very helpful to know how to use "sand" versus "sands." Thank you, Steve
and Ken.
And now we see some other things that Ian did with his friends at the beach.
We swam, read and danced to African music.
It sounds like a lot of fun to be doing that on the beach.
Have you ever danced to music on the beach, Carolyn?
I have not, but it sounds very interesting, and especially with African music
because that is a little bit exotic to me.
What about you, Gabe?
Well, I have actually danced to music on the beach.
There was a beach in Boracay in the Philippines.
And it was a lot of fun.
There was music playing, so some of my friends and I just started to dance.
And of course, you can do many things to music.
Like you can see, we swam and read, there was music playing in the background.
So you can use that phrase, that kind of pattern.
We did this to music, or we did that to the rhythm.
We danced to the rhythm.
We read, we swam and we danced to the music.
Great. OK. The next sentence now says:
The warm, shallow water makes kite surfing very popular there.
OK. We want to talk about a word in this sentence because it is a key word
today, the word "shallow." Shallow.
Basically, it means not deep.
Water can, of course, be very shallow, and sometimes is not very deep.
What are other ways that we could use this word, Carolyn?
Well, if it hasn't rained for a while, you could say that the river is very
shallow.
There isn't very much water in it, and you can probably just walk across.
It's very shallow water.
How else might you use this word, Gabe?
Well, the words "shallow" and "deep" can be used to talk about literal things
here, or you can use these words in other ways.
Maybe you're having a very deep conversation with somebody.
Or if you just met somebody, you might have kind of a shallow conversation at
first.
Maybe it's not too deep yet.
You're having a shallow conversation.
Oh, that's a great usage as well.
Sometimes we might also talk about shallow breathing.
You can't breathe very well, and you're not breathing very deeply.
You're just taking a little breath.
That would be called "shallow breathing." OK.
This sentence also mentioned kite surfing, which I have never done before.
Have either of you been kite surfing?
Or do you know much about kite surfing?
Oh, I've never been kite surfing, but I've seen people do it.
It looks really cool.
And uh, you know, they make it look really easy, but I don't think it's that
easy.
Carolyn, have you ever done kite surfing?
I have not, but it does look like a lot of fun.
And I think it would be great to try although I have a feeling I will probably
fall down many times and get very wet.
Well, that's what happens at first when you're learning something.
Kite surfing can also be called kiteboarding.
Are you into kite surfing or kiteboarding?
OK. Maybe you should give it a try.
But right now we're going to see Michelle in the Language Lab.
Hi, everyone. I'm Michelle.